About

The S&P Workgroup has overall, general and ongoing responsibility to identify and work towards resolution on all implementation issues related to securing, and protecting health information across the industry. It follows the HIPAA Security, Breach and Privacy and related regulations, such as GINA.

The workgroup’s goal is to facilitate the implementation of HIPAA HITECH Privacy, Breach and Security requirements across many variations of covered entities, business associates and interested parties across the health care industry, as well as facilitate the review of Privacy, Breach and Security beyond HIPAA/HITECH in the growing areas of EHR, HIEs, HIX’s and interoperability.